S. Thomas

For the feast day of  S. Thomas Aquinas, his great eucharistic hymn, Adoro te devote, sung by the monks of Prinknash Abbey

Martin Travers: Pictures of the English Liturgy (1916)

....The door swung easily open

(Unlocked, for these parts, is odd)

And there on the South aisle altar

Is the tabernacle of God.

There where the white light flickers

By the white and silver veil,

A wafer dipped in a wine-drop

Is the Presence the angels hail,

Is God who created the Heavens

And the wide green marsh as well

Who sings in the sky with the skylark

Who calls in the evening bell,

Is God who prepared His coming

With fruit of the earth for his food

With stone for building His churches

And trees for making His rood.

There where the white light flickers, 

Our Creator is with us yet .....

from 'A Lincolnshire Church' - John Betjeman